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The community app for Indians living abroad

Moving abroad is hard. Finding your people shouldn’t be. Namaste Community shows you the events, groups, Indian shops and services, and helpful people near you — wherever you live.

Free. Built for Indians and South Asians. Open to everyone settling into a new country.

  • Events

    Diwali, garba, cricket, meetups

  • Groups

    Local chats, run by locals

  • Directory

    Indian shops, doctors, services

  • Ask

    Answers from people who moved before you

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Navratri & Garba 2026 · 11–19 October 2026 — events in 18 countries →

Diwali 2026 · Sunday, 8 November 2026 — events in 16 countries →

What's inside, right now

Live from the community as you loaded this page. Events work right here on the website; groups and businesses you can browse here and join in the app; questions and listings stay in the app, where members can see who they're talking to.

The Namaste Community home screen: Directory categories and this week's events

Everything in one place

Open the app and the whole community is one screen: the trades and services people actually recommend, what's on this week, and a place to ask the question you couldn't Google.

  • Businesses grouped the way you look for them
  • Events and groups near you, with RSVP in a tap
  • Ask, Marketplace and chat one tap away
  • A distance on every card, from wherever you set your pin
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What makes it different

Everything is measured from where you stand

Most community apps hand you a country and let you dig. This one starts at your front door and works outwards — one radius, applied to every business, question, listing, group and event at once.

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  • One slider changes everything

    Set it to 10 km for the next street or 200 km for the whole region, and every screen reshapes at once — businesses, questions, things for sale, events and groups.

  • A distance on every card

    Not a city name you have to decode. The sofa is 3 km away, the plumber covers your postcode, the run starts a twenty-minute walk from here.

  • No “everywhere” button

    The widest view is your own country, and the server enforces that even if an app asks for more. A feed full of another country’s sofas is not a community.

  • Near, without pinning your door

    Distances are measured on our side from the exact point. What reaches anyone else’s phone is rounded to about a kilometre, and the map draws an area rather than a pin.

More on how the radius works, and why there is no worldwide feed — read the long version.

Udaan — Stories that took flight

Indian-origin changemakers, in their own words — the brewers, singers, dancers, builders and healers making a difference far from home.

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Music

Where no desi band had played

He plays the Diwali festivals and the Indian food festivals too. What Shivam Shankar counts as the milestone is the small Belgian rooms that had never booked a band like his.

Shivam Shankar · Belgium

Music

The Indian voice resonating in Belgium

A classroom in Kerala worked it out when Anna Jacob was eleven. It took Antwerp before she believed them.

Anna Jacob · Belgium

Food & Drink

Two and a half years of test batches

By day Anirudh Bobbili develops drinks for one of the largest companies on earth. The one he actually owns took two and a half years of weekends in a house in Tervuren.

Anirudh Bobbili · Belgium

How it actually went.

Experiences

First-hand accounts from people who have just done the thing you are about to do — the paperwork, the driving test, the flat hunt — written by them, under their own name.

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Been through something yourself? Write it up for the next person.

Free guides · PDF

The things you’d ask a friend who has lived here for years

Checked, written for desis, and yours by email. One email with the download, nothing else unless you ask.

All guides

Free guide · 10 pages · Belgium

Hired from Indiahow to get a job in Belgium, step by step

The permit your employer applies for, the 2026 salary lines in Flanders, Brussels and Wallonia, where the jobs are posted, what a Belgian CV looks like — and what nobody should ever charge you for.

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Free guide · 9 pages · Belgium

Pumpkins, lanterns and spooky nightsAutumn 2026 in Belgium

Ten autumn outings for desi families and friends — with dates, prices, the vegetarian catch and how to get there without a car.

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Tell us what you think

This app is built by one person who moved country too, and it gets better every time someone says what's missing. Found a bug? Want a feature? Want your business listed? We read everything.

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Prefer email? hello@namaste.community

Running a business?

Getting listed in the Directory is free, and you can do it yourself on Namaste for Business — or pick “List my business” in the form and we'll set you up.

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Questions, answered

Who is Namaste Community for?

Indians and South Asians living abroad — students, professionals and families — and anyone else settling into a new country. It started in Brussels and Antwerp and is growing country by country.

Is it free?

Yes. Browsing, asking, selling, lending and listing your business are all free.

What does “hyperlocal” actually mean here?

Everything in the app carries a location, and you choose how far you want to see — 10, 50, 100, 200 km, or your whole country. Each card tells you how far away it is, and the widest setting is still your own country: there is no worldwide feed to get lost in.

Does the app share my exact address?

No. Distances are calculated on our servers from the precise point, but the coordinates sent to other members are rounded to roughly a kilometre, and the map shows an area rather than a pin. That applies to everything you post, including posts from before we built it.

Is there a WhatsApp group for Indians in Belgium?

You do not need to hunt for WhatsApp invite links. Namaste Community has local groups for Indians and South Asians in Belgium and the countries around it — sport, food, new parents, jobs, languages — each open to people who live nearby, moderated, and without showing your phone number to other members. Browse them at namaste.community/groups and join free in the app.

What are Groups?

Chat rooms for people in one place — a running club, a book club, the parents at one school. Each group is anchored to a place and a radius its creator chooses, so you only see groups you could actually turn up to. Anyone with a verified phone number can start one; we review it before it appears.

What can I do on the website, and what needs the app?

On the website you can find events and RSVP to them, read the community’s stories and guides, check the festival calendar, and browse local groups and businesses. Joining a group and chatting, asking and answering questions, the marketplace, and a business’s contact details and reviews are in the app, where members are verified and every post can be moderated and reported.

Do I have to use my real name?

No. You can post questions, answers and reviews under a persistent pseudonym, so the community still recognises you across posts without knowing who you are.

Is this only for Indian expats?

It started with the Indian community in Belgium and that is still its heart, but everyone settling into a new country is welcome.

How do I list my business?

List it yourself on Namaste for Business (namaste.community/biz) or in the app under Directory — it is free. Or message us on WhatsApp and we will walk you through it.

How do you handle my data?

Contact details on business listings are never exposed to the browser, and we never sell your data. Ask us anything about it — the form on this page reaches a human.

Still stuck? Send us a message — a human replies.

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